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Machine Learning Software Engineer (LLM & Agentic AI - TikTok - Content Ecology Local Services)

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Drive R&D of core algorithms for TikTok Local Services using LLMs, Agentic AI, and multimodal learning to optimize transaction conversion and user intent understanding.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (LLM & Agentic AI)

Builds

Production-grade AI solutions for TikTok Local Services, including knowledge graphs and intelligent transaction optimization.

Domain

E-commerce / Local Services / AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLMs, Transformer architectures, multimodal large language models, NLP, computer vision, AI agents, knowledge graphs, conversion modeling, causal uplift modeling, decision optimization, Python, PyTorch, distributed model training, large-scale data processing

Preferred skills

E-commerce or marketplace ML systems, multilingual/multimodal data deployment, publications at top AI conferences, technical leadership

Technologies

PyTorch, Python, LLMs, Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs

Responsibilities

Develop deep semantic representations of content, products, and user intent; enhance supply- and demand-side experiences for transaction conversion; tackle frontier challenges in multilingual/multimodal understanding and sequential decision-making; translate SOTA research into scalable production solutions.

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